Robots powered by artificial intelligence are transforming the physical world and revolutionizing industries, from logistics to autonomous vehicles, Angela Schöllig, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Technical University of Munich, shows in her engaging DLD Future Hub presentation.
“With AI, robots can learn in parallel, they can reason about their environment, and they can imitate what they see in videos”, Schöllig explains. “And so what we are going to see is an unstoppable transformation through AI that really translates into the physical world.”
Currently robots excel in structured environments like factories and warehouses – but they struggle with the complexity and unpredictability of human spaces such as homes and offices.
This is about to change, Schöllig explains as she showcases groundbreaking research from her lab at TU Munich. Thanks to AI, robots can navigate human crowds safely and begin to understand how their own actions influence others. Schöllig’s team uses language models real-time safety assessments.
“We can leverage the information that is embedded in language models and translate them to the real world of a robot”, Schöllig notes. Humans learn that hot water should be kept away from a laptop keyboard. “That information is embedded in a lot of data, text data in the Internet”, Schöllig says, “and that is what we use to enable a robot to reason about its environment.”
Watch the video to learn more about the coming advances in robotics through AI.
